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Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model, and plans to launch an open-weight version of its most advanced model, Muse Spark 1.2, in the coming weeks  —  Mark Zuckerberg has a new game plan for winning over hearts and minds to his company's artificial-intelligence efforts: open models and an open hand.
More: Meta AI Research, Hugging Face, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Semafor, Tech Times, Neowin, NVIDIA Technical Blog, AMD, MarketWatch, Business Insider, Fast Company, CNBC, Newser, Techstrong.ai, RuntimeWire, Investor's Business Daily, The Decoder, Seoul Economic Daily, Blockonomi, International Business Times, Telegraph, Inc.com, Futurum, TestingCatalog AI News, and The Verge
X: @alexandr_wang, @finkd, @clementdelangue, @emollick, @aiatmeta, @nrehiew_, @jack_w_rae, @andrewyng, @alexandr_wang, @hadas_gold, @kylehessling1, @ollama, @jack_w_rae, @jsrailton, @nvidiaai, @giffmana, @sriramk, @zaidmukaddam, @nrehiew_, @davidondrej1, @altryne, @eliebakouch, @teortaxestex, @_maxblade, @jsrailton, @yacinemtb, @petergostev, @chetanp, @alexandr_wang, @mark_k, @scaling01, @jehangeer_hasan, @keennay, @xeophon, @unslothai, @kimmonismus, @omarsar0, @ylecun, @amd, @supbagholder, @mehulmpt, @rihardjarc, @xeophon, @dryangsong, @chetaslua, @tmychow, @modestproposal1, @aiatmeta, @meer_aiit, @jun_song, @ns123abc, @alexandr_wang, @garymarcus, @iamemily2050, @cryptopunk7213, @xfreeze, @aiatmeta, @phequals7, @levie, @simonw, @lmstudio, @ramintahbaz, @junliwang2021, @vllm_project, @matvelloso, @jack_w_rae, @nvidiarobotics, @jack_w_rae, and @paddix
LinkedIn: Jakob Steinschaden, Anton Protopopov, Evgenia Rodionova, Nicola Mendelsohn CBE, and Armand Ruiz
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @metacurity.com, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app.  Threads: @yannlecun
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/MU_Stock
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Meta says Muse Glimmer has 30B parameters and is a distilled version of Muse Spark 1.2; Meta plans a $1B fund to invest in US communities near its data centers
Mark Zuckerberg / Meta:
Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more  —  We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history.  In the next few years, people will be able to use superintelligence …
More: 404 Media, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Register, Washington Post, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, The Wrap, NBC News, Gizmodo, Inc, Tech Times, Bloomberg, WeRSM, The Daily Caller, Forbes, Constellation Research, CBS News, Fortune, Variety, Breitbart, Futurism, CNN, The Information, ZeroHedge News, UPI, The Post Millennial, Bitcoin News, Mashable, Music Ally, Wall Street Journal, Implicator.ai, Proactive, CNET, GeekWire, New York Magazine, Thurrott, Washington Examiner, International Business Times, Wall Street Pit, Cap City News, PYMNTS, Anadolu Ajansı …, TRT World, Business Insider, and TheJournal.ie
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Bluesky: @andrewmfounder, @elimgarak240b, @volts.wtf, @janerosenzweig, @convergingriskslab, @robertscotthorton, @tedunderwood.com, @joshsternberg.com, @liedra.net, @miniver, @mbkplus, and @roopikarisam
Threads: @karissabe, @yannlecun, and @mathonan.  Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to.  Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/thebulwark, r/technology, r/BetterOffline, r/Hasan_Piker, r/Anticonsumption, r/anticapitalism, r/singularity, and Slashdot
Jamie John / Financial Times:
Mark Zuckerberg criticizes “closed” AI model makers, says AI labs are espousing a “discourse ... so filled with doom”, and defends distillation as a principle
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
With his long essay, Zuckerberg returns to his “open” AI arguments at an opportune time, as Chinese open models narrow the performance gap at much lower cost
OpenAI:
OpenAI unveils two Daybreak tiers: Daybreak Blue, which provides access to frontier models, and Daybreak Red, which offers purpose-trained cybersecurity models  —  Introducing new ways to unlock advanced cyber capabilities together with GPT-5.6-Cyber, our latest cybersecurity-specific model.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative  —  OpenAI is introducing a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol to vetted defenders as it prepares companies for autonomous cyberattacks.
Financial Times:
Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development  —  Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among groups working with chipmaker to raise capital for data centre boom
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel announces a $15B common stock offering, with proceeds going to general corporate purposes, like “maintaining a strong balance sheet”; INTC falls 4%  —  Intel Corp. plans to offer $15 billion worth of new stock in what may be its first public share sale since the chipmaker listed in 1971 …
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters:
A US appeals court allows ~2,400 federal lawsuits against social media companies to proceed over claims their products were designed to addict young users  —  A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms (META.O), Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1  —  YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions.
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Sources: officials say OpenAI risks its White House relationship by hiring Dean Ball, who has criticized Trump's AI strategy after leaving the administration  —  Top OpenAI official Dean Ball is in the middle of a heated feud with the Trump administration - and White House officials warn …
TrendForce:
Analysis: the 256GB iPhone 18 Pro is set to have a bill of materials cost ~38% higher than the iPhone 17 Pro due to memory prices; memory's BOM share hits 34%  —  TrendForce's latest smartphone industry research reveals that escalating component costs—led by memory—are expected …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, expanding support beyond PayPal and Cash App  —  Google said that it is adding Venmo as a payment option today on Google Play for purchases including games, apps, add-ons, and other digital content.
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic  —  A new day has dawned in the Play Store, and it's one that Google tried very hard to avoid.  The first third-party app store has arrived …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details an unreleased Claude model's attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis; it didn't solve it but “unexpectedly” made strides on a related problem  —  Recently, a member of staff at Anthropic gave Claude an unreasonable challenge.  It was about one of the most famous …
The Information:
Source: Applied Compute, which helps companies customize models with their data, is in talks to raise “hundreds of millions” led by Elad Gil at a ~$3B valuation  —  Applied Compute, a year-old startup that helps companies run and customize open-source models with their own data …
Claude / @claudeai:
Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase  —  We're making Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent. We launched Sonnet 5 in June at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, and that price will remain unchanged.
Richard Holmes / Telegraph:
Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent “heartbeat communications” to an IP address in China  —  Special forces boats set for use in planned Gulf missions were fitted with Chinese-made components
Reuters:
South Korea plans to launch a ~$3.5B chip fund for promising materials, parts, equipment, and fabless companies, and speed the development of domestic chip hubs  —  South Korea will launch a 5 trillion won ($3.52 billion) semiconductor fund targeting promising chip materials, parts …
The Information:
Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil its next-gen AI chip, the Maia 300, potentially as soon as September, and is in talks with TSMC to make 300K+ chips for 2027  —  Microsoft is planning to significantly increase production of its internally designed next-generation AI chips next year in hopes …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: as Spotify tests a “Skip ahead” button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns  —  Spotify is terrifying much of the podcast industry with a tiny little widget.  —  Last week, the audio streaming giant tweaked …

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